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… The reopened inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol on Tuesday afternoon visited the scene of his death in October 1971 - John Vorster Square police station. The police station‚ now known as Johannesburg Central‚ was …

… The Sammy Marks Museum is a Victorian Mansion called … Zwartkoppies Hall, situated about 23km outside Pretoria. The 48-room Mansion with its lush gardens and tennis courts … lived there with his wife Bertha and their nine children. The Estate became a Museum in 1986 and the opulent life of …

… 1946 8 Dear friend, I am addressing this letter to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and … Indians have been in South Africa now for 85 years, and in the measure of their possibilities, they have contributed to the prosperity and development of the Union. As you are …

… The Junction Avenue theatre was formed in 1976, and it was … and conceptualised by a group of White students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in a bid to create … The Playwright Database. Doollee.com URL: …

… Madagascar is referred to as: 'the big red island'. Madagascar is the largest African island situated in the Indian Ocean, about 450 km (280 mi) east of the coast of …   https://madagascar-tourisme.com/en/discover/the-highlands/antananarivo/   …

… 600,000 years ago, humans inhabited what has since become the desolate Sahara of northern Niger. Long before the arrival of French influence and control in the area, Niger was an important economic crossroads, and the …

… With just 20 days left before South Africa hosts the world’s most prestigious tournament – the FIFA Soccer World Cup – the African National Congress (ANC) has declared the event a …

… Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a lookout post for enemy ships entering …

… Members of the party can no longer follow party orders to remain silent … Dear Comrade Secretary-General It seems to me that the demand from the national executive committee for silence in the ranks of …

… 1884, Bishop Jolivet purchased a plot in Clairwood for the erection of a mission church for "C reole ". A larger … he recommended that a new church building be erected. The present structure was built shortly afterwards, and … additions in 1932-33 and 1944. In September of that year the church building was consecrated by Bishop Delalle. It was …

… THE FOLLOWING NOTICE is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the Transvaal. WE Davidson, Acting Secretary to the Transvaal …

… the following notice is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the Transvaal. WE Davidson, Acting Secretary to the Transvaal …

… : Malians express great pride in their ancestry. Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancient African empires – Ghana, Malinké, and Songhai – that occupied the West African savannah. These empires controlled Saharan …

… From the book:  Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents … conviction that Indians in South Africa must Bt submits to the latest racial legislation of the Union of South Africa. They have well nigh exhausted all …

… things had changed at court. Our van drove through the gates of the old synagogue. We heard shouts of greeting as we were … outside. We were offloaded in a yard sealed off from the public, because we were now detainees held completely …

… published in Ebony. Reproduced with permission.) ...The solution to the South African problem will call for radical reforms, some of them of a really revolutionary nature. The basic reform will be in the form of the government. At …

… From the book:  Side by Side by Helen Joseph I drove back alone to … Africa. I had accepted that whites, simply because of the colour of their skins, lived on a higher socio-economic scale. It was for the eradication of this utterly invalid privilege that I was …

… Sports and the Liberation Struggle: a Tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others … sports boycott made a great contribution to liberation. The Indian community can be proud that Indian sportspersons and administrators were in the vanguard of this front of the anti-apartheid struggle. I …

… Mr Jimmy Manyi, President of the BMF Ms Tembakazi Mnyaka, our host and chair of BMF KZN, … never honoured in his hometown; you are therefore defying the odds as BMF KZN! This is my second BMF event in a few days! That indicates the seriousness with which we as the ANC take black …

… Naidoo immediately began playing an influential role in the development of a pro-Congress radical politics in Johannesburg. For the young white left, mainly linked to the National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and its …

… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church … artefacts. These priceless objects are housed in the Iziko Social History Centre, where the collections of …

… Delmas became famous in the latter part of 2010 for its proximity to the missing tiger known as Panjo. The tiger, only 17-months old, disappeared somewhere between …

… From the book:  My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner - 'The Bantu Education Act will make African mothers like fowls … and make what they like with them.' Lillian Ngoyi In 1953 the government passed the Bantu Education Act, which the …

… The Arboretum was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape Colony, thus marking the beginnings of a Forestry …

… Thursday sees Trafalgar High School, located at the foot of District Six, marking 100 years of existence and according to school principal, Nadeem Hendricks, the celebrations will be drawing in ex-Trafalgarians from across the globe who have made their mark in every sphere of their …

… morning, only a few people in union T-shirts sat in the shade in Johannesburg's Mary Fitzgerald Square, the listed starting point in the city for Cosatu's protected national strike. “Sorry guys, …

… of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the differences of the worlds they encountered, our master photo-grapher has stubbornly traipsed the landscape to look, reflect and record “structures”. It’s …

… From the book:  My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner I have already spoken about the boys on the potato farms at Bethel, how they used to take the boys …

… 58 wounded. At about 7:30pm, on Sunday 25th July, while the congregation of 1400 listened to a hymn of worship, a group of gunmen burst into the church and opened fire with automatic weapons. "I noticed the handle of the side door facing the congregation turn and …

… This Village of Greyton, in the Cape , was established in 1852. Although the first plots of land were only sold in 1854. It was named in honour of Sir George Grey , Governor of the Cape 1854-61. By 1891 the census indicated that it had a …